Adeona is the first Open Source system for tracking the location of your lost or stolen laptop that does not rely on a proprietary, central service. This means that you can install Adeona on your laptop and go — there’s no need to rely on a single third party. What’s more, Adeona addresses a critical privacy goal different from existing commercial offerings. It is privacy-preserving...
Stupid Monsters Someone Was Paid to Make
If you were ever a D&D geek (like I was), you’l totally appreciate this article from headinjurytheater.com. I was *pissing* myself. I can so clearly remember bringing home the monster manuals and immsersing myself as if it were a fresh bag of crack. (Imagine the movie a Christmas Story, when Ralphie was in the bathroom, entranced by the Little Orphan Annie code, decoding each letter one...
Geek Haiku
Haiku is a mode of Japanese poetry, the late 19th century revision by Masaoka Shiki of the older hokku,the opening verse of a linked verse form, haikai no renga. The traditional hokku consisted of a pattern of approximately 5, 7, 5 on. The Japanese word on, meaning “sound”, corresponds to a mora, a phonetic unit similar but not identical to the syllable of a language such as English...